Professional C# 2008

Professional C# 2008 starts by reviewing the overall architecture of .NET in Chapter 1 in order to give you the background you need to be able to write managed code. After that the book is divided into a number of sections that cover both the C# language and its application in a variety of areas.

Christian Nagel of thinktecture is a software architect and
developer who offers training and consulting on how to design and
develop Microsoft .NET solutions. He looks back on more than 20
years of software development experience. Christian started his
computing career with PDP 11 and VAX/VMS platforms, covering a
variety of languages and platforms. Since the year 2000, when .NET
was just a technology preview, he has been working with various
.NET technologies to build numerous .NET solutions. With his
profound knowledge of Microsoft technologies, he has written
numerous .NET books, and is certified as a Microsoft Certified
Trainer and Professional Developer for ASP.NET. Christian speaks at
international conferences such as TechEd and Tech Days, and
supports .NET user groups with INETA Europe. You can contact
Christian via his Web sites, www.christiannagel.com and
www.thinktecture.com .

Bill Evjen, Microsoft MVP is an active proponent of .NET
Technologies and community - based learning initiatives for .NET.
He has been actively involved with .NET since the first bits were
released in 2000. In the same year, Bill founded the St. Louis .NET
User Group ( www.stlnet.org ), one of the world ’ s first
such groups. Bill is also the founder and former executive director
of the International .NET Association ( www.ineta.org ), which
represents more than 450,000 members worldwide. Based in St. Louis,
Missouri, Bill is an acclaimed author (more than 15 books to date)
and speaker on ASP.NET and SML Web services. In addition to writing
and speaking at conferences such as DevConnections, VSLive, and
TechEd, Bill works closely with Microsoft as a Microsoft regional
director. Bill is the technical architect for Lipper (
www.lipperweb.com ), a wholly owned subsidiary of Reuters, the
international news and financial services company. He graduated
from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington with a
Russian language degree. When he isn ’ t tinkering on the
computer, he can usually be found at his summer house in Toivakka,
Finland. You can reach Bill at evjen@yahoo.cpm.

Morgan Skinner began his computing career at a young age
on the Sinclair ZX80 at school, where he was underwhelmed by some
code a teacher had written and so began programming in assembly
language. Since then he ’ s used all sorts of languages and
platforms, including VAX Macro Assembler, Pascal, Modula2,
Smalltalk, X86 assembly language, PowerBuilder, C/C++, VB, and
currently C# (of course). He ’ s been programming in .NET
since the PDC release in 2000, and liked it so much he joined
Microsoft in 2001. He now works in premier support for developers
and spends most of his time assisting customers with C#. You can
reach Morgan at www.morganskinner.com.

Jay Glynn started writing software nearly 20 years ago,
writing applications for the PICK operating system using PICK
basic. Since then, he has created software using Paradox PAL and
Object PAL, Delphi, VBA, Visual Basic, C, C++, Java, and of course,
C#. He is currently a project coordinator and architect for a large
financial services company in Nashville, Tennessee, working on
software for the TabletPC platform. You can contact Jay at
jlsglynn@hotmail.com.

Karli Watson is a freelance author and a technical
consultant of 3form Ltd ( www.3form.net ) and Boost .net, and an
associate technologist at Content Master ( www.contentmaster.com ).
He started out with the intention of becoming a world - famous
nanotechnologist, so perhaps one day you might recognize his name
as he receives a Nobel Prize. For now, though, Karli ’ s main
academic interest is the .NET Framework, and all the boxes of
tricks it contains. A snowboarding enthusiast, Karli also loves
cooking, spends far too much time playing Anarchy Online and EVE,
and wishes he had a cat. As yet, nobody has seen fit to publish
Karli ’ s first novel, but the rejection letters make an
attractive pile. If he ever puts anything up there, you can visit
Karli online at http://www.karliwatson.com.

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